Rod's Food
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Stanley-Reefer
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c'mon nanook a tank that size, and to fuss about the price of Rods?
That's like sportscar people fussing about the price of tires and brakes----wait that's me!
That's like sportscar people fussing about the price of tires and brakes----wait that's me!
I have it in my food rotation. I feed dry 3 times a day (auto feeder) and frozen twice a day. I feed Rod's green, Rod's Orange, and Ocean Nutrition frozen angel food (for the sponge). I alternate daily. One day its Rods green in the morning and Rod's Orange at night, One day its rods red/green in the morning and angel at night.
Rod's is a complete food. IT feeds EVERYTHING in the tank. The one issue I have with it is price. I have a large tank and I would prefer the option of buying it in bulk, or in bulk packaging. I live in Illinois (about 40 miles from Rod) and I can't find anywhere that sells it less than 19.99. It must be a fixed contractual price.
On the positive size I don't try and hand feed fish to start them feeding anymore. I over feed Rod's so there is a cloud in the tank. I haven't had a fish as of yet that wouldn't try and sample some of it... Even my dragonette would eat it.
Rod's is a complete food. IT feeds EVERYTHING in the tank. The one issue I have with it is price. I have a large tank and I would prefer the option of buying it in bulk, or in bulk packaging. I live in Illinois (about 40 miles from Rod) and I can't find anywhere that sells it less than 19.99. It must be a fixed contractual price.
On the positive size I don't try and hand feed fish to start them feeding anymore. I over feed Rod's so there is a cloud in the tank. I haven't had a fish as of yet that wouldn't try and sample some of it... Even my dragonette would eat it.
OneReef
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I did a search on Rods Food and diatoms on Google, and found a post on another site where a user of Rods thawed some in tank water and tested it for phosphates and it came back 1.0ppm. Is this high or normal? I have been getting some diatom lately on the sand, and am trying to figure out if it is from overfeeding Rods, or from my new bucket of Reef Crystals Salt....
RokleM
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Same here. At some point it seemed to have turned from chunky to very finely cut. It became more of a cloud in my tank when added than chunks of food for the fish. Great food, just doesn't meet my needs anymore. Homemade works for me.
You will find very few foods that are NOT high in phosphate when tested directly.
ReeferChick85
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lol the smell is gross! But i love that stuff. It's like a treat for my tank! I use it interchangeably with mysis shrimp 
Rod’s Food
Rod’s Original and now other blended frozen fish foods have become quite popular in recent years. The food is certainly good quality. I think the ingredients are rinsed to remove the preservatives that other foods might include. I emailed him a few years back and he wrote that he uses whole mysis shrimp, scallop, oyster, and now, Euphausia krill, plus some common human vegetables, like raw peas.
Yet Rod’s Foods are expensive. At $20 for a 6-ounce pack, his Original food equates to $53 a pound. Compare this to other sources of nutrients for fish:
• Purina’s Aquarium Pond pellets in a feed bag is only 32 cents per pound (grain meal)
• Kordon Frozen Brine is $4.70/lb
• Frozen Mysis shrimp from Hakari costs from $12 to 34 per pound
In fact, the average of eight frozen fish foods is $19.50 per pound. In the grocery store, raw red salmon fillets are available for a tenth of his price. Compare Rod’s to human foods that average less than $5 per pound, including oysters, which can cost as much as $20/lb.
You can quickly see that a messy DIY afternoon with several pounds of thawed human fish food, raw green vegetables and a blender is well worth the effort.
For extra high protein and fat percentages, consider Aqua Select FD Plankton. This is freeze-dried Pacifica plankton with 70% protein, but at $151/lb. Or use Argent Cyclop-eeze. This is a wonderful reef food. It is powdery, freeze-dried decapods with 60% protein and 34% fat, but at $205/lb!
Rod’s Original and now other blended frozen fish foods have become quite popular in recent years. The food is certainly good quality. I think the ingredients are rinsed to remove the preservatives that other foods might include. I emailed him a few years back and he wrote that he uses whole mysis shrimp, scallop, oyster, and now, Euphausia krill, plus some common human vegetables, like raw peas.
Yet Rod’s Foods are expensive. At $20 for a 6-ounce pack, his Original food equates to $53 a pound. Compare this to other sources of nutrients for fish:
• Purina’s Aquarium Pond pellets in a feed bag is only 32 cents per pound (grain meal)
• Kordon Frozen Brine is $4.70/lb
• Frozen Mysis shrimp from Hakari costs from $12 to 34 per pound
In fact, the average of eight frozen fish foods is $19.50 per pound. In the grocery store, raw red salmon fillets are available for a tenth of his price. Compare Rod’s to human foods that average less than $5 per pound, including oysters, which can cost as much as $20/lb.
You can quickly see that a messy DIY afternoon with several pounds of thawed human fish food, raw green vegetables and a blender is well worth the effort.
For extra high protein and fat percentages, consider Aqua Select FD Plankton. This is freeze-dried Pacifica plankton with 70% protein, but at $151/lb. Or use Argent Cyclop-eeze. This is a wonderful reef food. It is powdery, freeze-dried decapods with 60% protein and 34% fat, but at $205/lb!
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